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Let's do wind | 37 comments (37 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Fig 0.1 seems weird : the scale on the left goes up to 100,000 MW, the scale on the right up to 50,000 MW. So the evolution is made to look similar, but is not. Nothing to tell us which is which either...

by iSoph on Mon Oct 6th, 2008 at 05:01:58 PM EST

Re: Let's do wind (none / 1)

My reading is that the right is annual growth, and the left is total.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Mon Oct 6th, 2008 at 05:03:35 PM EST
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Re: Let's do wind (none / 0)

My bad, one scale is for annual, the other for total... You can delete my comments.

by iSoph on Mon Oct 6th, 2008 at 05:07:21 PM EST
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Re: Let's do wind (4.00 / 2)

Anyway, welcome to posting on ET!

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

by Melanchthon on Mon Oct 6th, 2008 at 05:41:26 PM EST
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Why not do waves too? (none / 0)

Thanks for the welcome!

About renewable energy, recently the first Pelamis were installed in Portugal, but I haven't heard of the CETO technology in Europe.
It's about underwater buoys compressing seawater so that it reaches the shore, and can either be used to produce electricity, or desalinate through reverse osmosis.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2008/2378304.htm

The CETO website mentions no problems or downsides at all, which is a little too much I guess, but it's interesting.
http://www.carnegiecorp.com.au/

by iSoph on Tue Oct 7th, 2008 at 04:01:28 AM EST
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Oh it's a fair point (none / 0)

I also found the scales confusing at first, as they are not labelled.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Oct 6th, 2008 at 05:44:13 PM EST
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Re: Oh it's a fair point (none / 0)

To make it worse, they are confusing the timespans in the accompanying text.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Oct 6th, 2008 at 05:47:34 PM EST
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